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| Altered States [1980] | ![Altered States [1980]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413RZJQFJDL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Ken Russell
Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Running Time: 99 minutes
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Release Date: November 21, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
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 Unparalleled Strangeness December 24, 2008
I could only give this movie three stars because I dont think it has much rewatch value, I'd recommend rental rather than buying it, unless you've seen it and are a fan. br /br /The dialogue is seriously heavy duty, it would suit a book more and be more convincing, the actors do their best with it and its clear from listening to it the sorts of characterisation which it supposed to suit but it some how doesnt work aswell as it might. br /br /The film follows researchers experimenting with altered states of human consciousness, sensory deprivation tanks, drug induced hallucinations and the central character puts all these things together in an effort to recover hallucinagenic experiences of a religious kind he had as a child. As the experiments roll on the main character becomes increasingly obsessive, shunning his wife, who tries to pull him back from the brink as he starts to achieve not simply changes in his consciousness but physical changes, devolving to an ape man at one point and all the way back to some surreal, bizarro premordial anti-matter. br /br /In the end his wife, or rather his attachment to his wife, rescues him in a low budget but none the less shocking and disturbing episode in which his body spontaneously returns to the bizarro anti-matter state.br /br /The movie is unparalleled strangeness, sound, characters, dialogue, the interspacing of committee room style arguments, obsessiveness, menace with the more whacked out special effects creates an eerieness which is a little like Rosemarie's Baby. There's a real feeling that the film is building to something and it doesnt disappoint. The sense of eerieness and disturbing content is something which more recent films havent been able to reproduce, it does however effect how entertaining you could consider the feature to be and whether or not you're likely to watch it again. Compelling but not really entertaining.
 One of the silliest films I have ever seen January 13, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is one of the silliest films I have ever seen. Set against that, I rarely watch American films so there are probably worse. At best Altered States is laughable; at worst it is tedious. The themes were vague and variable. Overall it came across as a pastiche of the worst aspects of a number of films and TV shows. Perhaps the people who produced it came up with it sitting drinking beer round a table late one night. It gives the impression of someone 'avvin' a laff'.br /br /So what were its origins? The graphics were the worst that 2001 Space Odyssey could muster. Endless travelling down poorly rendered tunnels. Yawn! There was an idea of sorts about the origins and make-up of humanity but it was trivial and not developed. There were ludicrous scenes straight out of Planet of the Apes and the Incredible Hulk, but less well done. Perhaps the Jekyll and Hyde theme could have been taken further, but it wasn't.br /br /The scientists were of two kinds. The first was the dopy, spaced-out variety from the TV show The Fast Show. The other was the sort who solves all problems by shouting very loudly. These are found in most disaster films of course. The hero was an etiolated, doe-eyed new man with a problem. He spouted meaningless trivia that sounded significant. He should have been a politician. There was a lot of psycho-babble about why he could not commit to love. He needed to find himself in life's great history of course. br /br /The only interesting part was the drug scene in Mexico. Here we were treated to an episode out of Macbeth. The cauldron bubbled and there was a lot of muttering as strange ingredients were thrown into the pot. I didn't see any toads though. The guru was the only convincing character in the whole film. Clearly a charlatan, evidenced by his cynical grin and inability to look you in the eye, he was the local dealer, supplying extremely dubious substances to a chemical orgy. Shame they didn't fit in any zombies at this point in the plot.br /br /So how does it end? Much, much too late. Well, the final theme is redemption through love. Earlier in the film the love interest was limited to opportunities for the display of some remarkably large and erect nipples. At the end the earth truly moved for both of them, along with the bowels of the viewer.br /br /This could have been made in the sixties, but shouldn't have been even then. I am just grateful that I only rented it.
 Enthralling, fascinating and gripping. September 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Are you looking for something different? This film is most definitely that. I am writing this in a post-hypnotic buzz after just watching this film and I'm still a little spaced out.br /br /I think I just sat through 90 minutes of people yelling at one another in a mad demented professorial kind of way. The acting was real and everything fitted well. This movie keeps you thinking all the way through; it grabs your mind and sucks, then keeps on sucking. br /br /This is not a horror movie, but it has a sharp edge of horrific to it. Jessup walks that edge throughout, in his passionate search for answers. This film has the feel of 'too good to be true', where you are aware that something is enjoyable but it could all go horribly wrong at any moment. Jessup keeps you balanced at that point, not knowing whether his next experiement will destroy him. Expertly done.br /br /This is certainly not a 'live happily ever after' kind of movie. It will leave you with questions, but not the usual sort of 'huh, so what was that about?' which you get after some particularly bad script writing. Prepare to question life, the nature of the universe and existence.
Horror but not Horror August 4, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There's something about this movie. Released around the time of such visual breakthroughs as Alien and Blade Runner it concentrated its visual onslaught into premeditated segments which were definately 'out there'. br /br /Its basically a retelling of Jekyll Hyde (I think) but with a modern flavor given by mind-altering mushrooms and dangerous post-grad experimentation with frontier psychology. br /br /Its a visual treat even now. The shot of Jessup arriving at the party, framed in light like some angelic visitation, still makes me smile. Not subtle but it was followed by a conversation about single men at parties involving peanut butter which is part of its charm.br /br /Though it gets rather silly at the end its a cracking story which hopefully no rich Hollywood idiot will ever try to remake.
Still scares me 25 years later January 8, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film first scared me about 12 months before I saw it - there was an article in OMNI magazine featuring a selection of stills, which freaked me out. pIt was, therefore, with some trepidation that I approached a chance to see it at the cinema. I have it at home now and it really is so well-made that it still "does it to me" even after all this time. This is largely due to the marvellous score by John Corigliano. pI think that Blair Brown's performance as the hapless wife is hugely underrated. The FX were groundbreaking then and still highly effective now. pMy personal scariest moment is the one where one of Jessup's subjects "trips out". Her facial expression and the words of the script conspire to make me uneasy even now.
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